US History I to 1877 : America at War (1861–1865)

Editor in Chief: Philip DiMare (California State University–Sacramento) and Sandra A. Moats (University of Wisconsin–Parkside)

Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address to the Confederacy (1861)
Jefferson Davis: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate (1861)
Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Homestead Act (1862)
Frederick Douglass: "Men of Color, To Arms!" (1863)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman (1864)
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)

Julia Ward Howe: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1861)
William Henry Seward: Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln (1861)
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Alexander Stephens: Corner Stone Speech (1861)
Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper's Ferry (1861)
Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Civil War Diary of a Union Soldier (1861-1865)
Wendell Phillips: "Under the Flag" (1861)
Sam Houston: Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy (1861)
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Custis Lee (1861)
Morrill Act (1862)
George Frederick Root: “Battle-Cry of Freedom” (1862)
Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (1862)
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1862) (1862)
Frederick Douglass: The Reasons for Our Troubles (1862)
U.S. War Department General Order 143 Establishing the Bureau of U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1863) (1863)
Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James C. Conkling (1863)
Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches (1863)
Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony (1864–1865)
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches (1864)
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1864) (1864)
James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny” (1864)
William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator (1865)
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
Black Code of Mississippi (1865)
Walt Whitman: Selections from Drum-Taps (1865)
Ulysses S. Grant: Final Report of Military Operations (1865)
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
Robert E. Lee: General Order No. 9 (1865)
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Andrew Hunter (1865)
George Cary Eggleston: A Rebel’s Recollections (1875)
Jefferson Davis: Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881)

Unit Essays: America at War
Short-answer Questions: America at War
Map Exercises: America at War
Key Terms: America at War
Key Concepts: America at War
Key Arguments: America at War
Unit Objectives: America at War

Unit overview America at War (1861–1865)
Unit example The Road to Appomattox and Peace
Unit example The Process of Southern Secession
Unit example The Emancipation Proclamation